# Link Visualization to Search
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/link-visualization-to-search/75003
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [February 14, 2017, 9:39am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/link-visualization-to-search/75003 "2017-02-14T09:39:48Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@cinhtau](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/cinhtau)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2017, 9:39am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/link-visualization-to-search/75003/1 "2017-02-14T09:39:48Z")
Dear community,
I use Kibana 5.1.2 and have some visualizations that were created from a new search.
It is possible for these visualizations to be linked to a search afterwards?
I couldn't find any option and modification possibility for that. For now my approach would be to create a new vis with a linked search and replace the existing one. Having 30 visualizations is a very cumbersome work though.
Some clarity or a simple yes or no is appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
---
### Author:  [@tylersmalley](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tylersmalley)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2017, 9:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/link-visualization-to-search/75003/2 "2017-02-14T21:07:26Z")
@cinhtau,
Unfortunately, you would need to recreate the searches in order to associate with a saved search.
If you want to drill down on a visualization or dashboard, you can also use pinned queries: [https://www.elastic.co/blog/stick-with-it-pinned-filters](https://www.elastic.co/blog/stick-with-it-pinned-filters)
---
### Author:  [@cinhtau](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/cinhtau)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2017, 9:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/link-visualization-to-search/75003/3 "2017-02-14T21:44:00Z")
Hi, thank you for your answer. I have to recreate them 😅
Out of curiosity, if I have 20 visualizations that are linked to the same search, does that make the dashboard faster, instead of having 20 visualizations with a independent search, though the searches do not differ. Just to understand the Kibana mechanics. Is Kibana performing one search retrieval or is it doing 20 queries and fetches?
---
### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [March 14, 2017, 9:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/link-visualization-to-search/75003/4 "2017-03-14T21:44:07Z")
This topic was automatically closed 28 days after the last reply. New replies are no longer allowed.